Authors: Richard Holmes
Rain, 278, 280
Rakóczi, Francis, 250–1
Rambaut, Philip, 441
Ramillies, battle of (1706):
Danish dragoons at, 202
Cadogan reports on French deployment at, 217
pursuit following, 220
Marlborough’s tactics at, 242
French manoeuvres at, 286
deployment and engagement, 332–47, 479
casualties, 348
effects of victory, 349, 356
Allied guns at, 478
fought on Sunday, 478–9
Rantzau, Major General Josef, 382, 384, 385
Rastatt, Treaty of (1714), 459
Ratisbon, 251
Regency Act (1705), 327, 329
Regiments (British):
Bevil Skelton’s, 79
Black Watch, 471
Calthorp’s, 75
Cameronians (Fergusson’s), 165, 340
Coldstream Guards, 48, 50, 122, 124, 161
Duchess’s, 89
Duke of Berwick’s, 140
Duke of St Alban’s Horse, 148
Duke of York’s, 79
Earl of Arran’s, 211
Earl of Dumbarton’s (
later
Orkney’s), 114, 118, 120–1, 126, 157, 274
Earl of Peterborough’s, 79
Foot Guards (1st), 8, 49–50, 54–5, 122, 124–6, 136, 256, 267, 272, 274, 292, 405, 428
Harrisons’s, 308
Hepburn’s, 52n
Hill’s Foot, 247
Holland, 89
Horse Grenadiers, 116, 117
Horse Guards (‘Oxford Blues’), 50, 111, 114, 116, 122, 148, 158
Irish Dragoons, 347
King’s Own Regiment of Dragoons, 101
Kirke’s, 125
Leigh’s, 209
Life Guards, 50, 52, 54, 100, 116, 161
Lord Arlington’s, 89
Lord Baltimore’s, 209
Lord Forbes’s, 155
Lord High Admiral’s Foot, 61, 69–70
Lord Orrery’s, 217
Lord Raby’s Dragoons, 246
Meredith’s, 340
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, 51
Queen Dowager’s, 111
Queen’s, 367
Queen’s Royal Regiment (2nd of Foot), 51
Royal Dragoons, 120, 124, 148
Royal English, 52, 79
Royal Fusiliers, 162
Royal Regiment of Ireland, 133, 159, 199, 428–9
Royal Scots (1st of Foot), 52
Scots Dragoons, 347
Sir Edward Hales’s, 132
Sir John Fenwick’s, 73
Sir Thomas Prendergast’s, 372
Thomas Erle’s, 210
Trelawney’s, 114, 116, 125, 135
Wade’s, 307
Wallis’s Dragoons, 379
Webb’s, 390
Reichenbach, river, 282
Reynell, Sir Thomas, 42
Rheinberg, 230
Rhine, river, 224, 250, 370–1, 452
Rhineland:
French invade, 146
Richards, Colonel Michael, 280
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of, 464
Ridley, Grace, 475
Riley, John, 25
Rivers, General Richard Savage, 4th Earl (
earlier
Viscount Colchester), 136, 170, 174, 209, 350, 414, 461
roads, 14–15
Robethon, John de, 260, 261, 467
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of:
staff of office, 13, 180–1
on James Duke of York’s Catholicism, 95
works with Godolphin, 100–1
negotiates Anne’s marriage with Prince George, 106
on Earl of Dorset, 154
and Anne’s parliamentary grant, 164
mediates between Anne and Mary, 178
and Anne’s ill treatment in Bath, 180–1
and refusal of parliamentary grant to Marlborough, 234
refuses move to Ireland, 234
Rochford, William Henry Zulestein, 1st Earl of, 172
Rocques, Guillaume Le Vasseur des, 401
Rodger, N.A.M., 69, 145, 189, 441
Romney, Henry Sidney, Earl of, 137, 142, 179, 195
Ronché, Father, 98
Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 298
Ross, Lieutenant General Charles, 448
Roundway Down, battle of (1643), 40
Rowe, Brigadier Archibald, 264, 291–2
Rowney, Thomas, 301
Rowse, A.L., 63
Roxborough, Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of, 99
Royal Hospitals (Chelsea and Kilmainham), 90, 306–8, 447
Royal James
(ship), 68
Ruffy, Major General Anne-Marie-Louis, comte de, 372
Rummersheim, 420
Rupert, Prince Palatine, 41, 61, 78
Rupert’s Land, 459
Russell, Edward
see
Orford, Earl of
Russell, Colonel John, 49–50, 54
Russell, William, Lord, 17, 91, 93
Ruvigny, marquis de
see
Galway, 1st Earl of
Ruyter, Admiral Michiel Adriaanszoon de, 68, 78
Ryder, Dudley, 472
Rye House conspiracy (1683), 92
Rysbrack, William, 477
Ryswick, Treaty of (1697), 188, 192, 249
Sabin, Philip, 46
Sabine, Brigadier Joseph, 207, 382, 384
Sacheverell, Henry, 414, 438
Sackville, Major General Edward, 184
St Albans, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of, 62
St Amand, 455
St-Eloois-Vijve, 451
St Ghislain, 423
St-Hilaire, Lieutenant General, 390
St John, Henry
see
Bolingbroke, Viscount
St Michael
(ship), 68
St Omer, 454
St Paul’s Cathedral:
Fifth Monarchy men occupy, 49
St Paul’s School:
Marlborough attends, 46
St Ruth, marquis de, 16, 170–1
Saint Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 383
St Vaast-la Hougue
see
La Hougue
St-Venant, 393, 419, 451
Salee:
corsairs, 60
Salisbury
(French ship), 215
Salisbury
, HMS, 215
Salisch, Lieutenant General Ernst Willem von, 324
Sancroft, William, Archibishop of Canterbury, 131, 178
Sandby, Chaplain Josias, 8, 272–3, 278, 289, 296
Sandwich, Edward Montagu (or Mountagu), 1st Earl of, 68
Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of, 234
Sandys, Captain (of Blues), 137
Santlow, Hester, 481
Sars Wood, Flanders, 422–4, 426–8, 431
Sarsfield, Patrick, 148–9, 169–70
Saunders, Stephen, 135
Savage, Richard
see
Rivers, 4th Earl
Saverne, 249
Savoy, Eugène, Prince of
see
Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan
Savoy, Victor Amadeus, Duke of
see
Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy
Saxe, Marshal Maurice, comte de, 205
Saxe-Gotha, Frederick II, Prince of, 359
Scarborough, Frances, Countess of, 23
Scarburgh, Sir Charles, 98
Scarpe, river, 451–3, 456–7
Schaerken, 385
Scheldt, river, 39, 362, 377, 380, 383, 397, 402, 422, 453
Schellenberg, the, Donauwörth, 269–76, 306, 479
Schomberg, Meinhard, 3rd Duke of, and Duke of Leinster, 130, 157–9, 167–8, 171, 195, 248, 464
Schulenberg, General Lewin Friedrich, Count, 401, 426, 430
Schultz, Lieutenant General Jobst, Baron of Scholten, 338, 344
Schwenningen, 281–2, 287
Scotland:
Union with England (1707), 31, 327, 353, 356
troops raised, 50
Covenanters in, 93–4
James Duke of York in, 93–5
Test Act, 95
Mackay’s campaign in, 172, 456
and Disarming Acts, 471
Jacobite rebellions (1715 & 1745), 471
Scots brigade, 426
Scott, Sir Edward, 170
Scott, Colonel Robert, 79
Scouller, R.E., 307, 367
Sedgemoor, battle of (1686), 17, 111, 119–25, 127–8
Sedley, Catherine, 47, 87–8, 154
Sedley, Sir Charles, 87
Sensée, river, 452–4
Septennial Act (1716), 31
Settlement, Act of (1701), 192, 468
Seven Bishops:
conflict with James II, 33, 131
Sévigné, Marie, marquise de, 66
Seymour, Conway, 21
Seymour, Sir Edward, 32
Seymour, General, 204
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 91–2
Shaw, Captain Alexander, 21
Shaw, Ensign Hugh, 21
Shaw, Sir John, 21
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 19
Sheriffmuir, battle of (1715), 471
Shovell, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, 359, 365
Shrewsbury, Adelhida, Duchess of, 29, 472
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 12th Earl (
later
Duke) of:
invites William to England, 137
and Anne’s claims for grant, 164
stands bail for Marlborough, 180
friendship with Marlborough, 181
on English methods in War of League of Augsburg, 182
and failed attack on Brest, 183, 185
reappointed secretary of state, 183
admits to helping Middleton in plot against William, 187
and William’s attitude to Marlborough, 191
and unpopularity of Slangenburg, 324
supports Harley, 442
appointments on death of Anne, 469
Shrimpton, Brigadier John, 264
Sidney, Henry
see
Romney, Earl of
siege warfare, 70–5
Sierck, 310
Silesia, 358
Silly, comte de, 282–3
Silvère, Colonel de la, 296
Sinclair, John, Master of, 21, 208
Sinsheim, battle of (1674), 79–80
Slangenburg, Lieutenant General Frederik Johan Baer, Heer van:
differences with Marlborough, 220, 243, 320, 322–3, 325–6
in attempt on Antwerp, 245
Coehoorn falls out with, 246, 318
proposes advance on Louvain, 316
reputation in United Provinces, 324
Slankamen, battle of (1691), 251
slaves:
agreement under Treaty of Utrecht, 458
smallpox, 16
Smith, John, 443
Smollett, Tobias, 477
Smyrna convoy:
ambushed (1693), 182–3
Snyder, Henry L., 6, 101, 413
Soignies, 204
Solms, Heinrich Maastricht, Count, 172, 181–2
Somers, John, Baron, 28, 35n, 364, 413, 415, 444
Somerset, Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of, 32, 138, 177, 205, 207, 414, 442, 475
Somerset, Elizabeth, Duchess of, 23
Somerset, William Seymour, 3rd Duke of, 113–16, 131
South Sea Bubble, 444, 473
Southampton, Charles FitzRoy, 1st Duke of (and 2nd Duke of Cleveland), 62
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of, 49
Southwell, Elizabeth Cromwell, Lady, 257, 481
Southwold Bay, battle of (1672), 68–9, 77
Spaar, General, 243, 429
Spagge, Sir Edward, 61
Spain:
campaign in, 208–9, 246, 329–30, 350, 356–7, 360, 362–3
in peace terms, 410, 420, 435, 441, 452, 458–9
Spanish Netherlands:
in War of League of Augsburg, 181–2
and Spanish succession, 193
occupation and extent, 196, 198
France loses territory, 356
Dutch unpopularity in, 361
governed by Anglo-Dutch condominium, 368, 371
campaign of 1708 in, 369
Marlborough offered governorship, 421
see also
Flanders
Spanish Succession, War of (1701–13):